Quotes about Ephemeral

Sweet little flower of heavenly birth You were too fair to bloom on earth.

What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

What is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The fashion of this world passeth away.

The fashion of this world passeth away.

Our time is a very shadow that passeth away.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

Ptolemy said, "Mortal though I be, yea, ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at night's starry domain of heaven, then no longer on earth I stand: I touch the Creator and my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

[Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help.

We see how mankind, without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and   ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness itself.